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Letter 18
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Steventon, Saturday (January 3, 1801).
My dear Cassandra,—As you have by this time received my last letter, it is fit that I should begin another; and I begin with the hope, which is at present uppermost in my mind, that you often wore a white gown in the morning at the time of all the gay parties being with you.
Our visit at Ash Park, last Wednesday, went off in a come-cá way. We met Mr. Lefroy and Tom Chute, played at cards, and came home again. James and Mary dined here on the following day, and at night Henry set off in the mail for London. He was as agreeable as ever during his visit, and has not lost anything in Miss Lloyd's estimation.
Yesterday we were quite alone—only our four selves; but to-day the scene is agreeably varied1 by Mary's driving Martha to Basingstoke, and Martha's afterwards dining at Deane.
My mother looks forward with as much certainty as you can do to our keeping two maids; my father is the only one not in the secret. We[75] plan having a steady cook and a young giddy housemaid, with a sedate2, middle-aged3 man, who is to undertake the double office of husband to the former and sweetheart to the latter. No children of course to be allowed on either side.
You feel more for John Bond than John Bond deserves. I am sorry to lower his character, but he is not ashamed to own himself that he has no doubt at all of getting a good place, and that he had even an offer many years ago from a Farmer Paine of taking him into his service whenever he might quit my father's.
There are three parts of Bath which we have thought of as likely to have houses in them,—Westgate Buildings, Charles Street, and some of the short streets leading from Laura Place or Pulteney Street.
Westgate Buildings, though quite in the lower part of the town, are not badly situated4 themselves. The street is broad, and has rather a good appearance. Charles Street, however, I think is preferable. The buildings are new, and its nearness to Kingsmead Fields would be a pleasant circumstance. Perhaps you may remember, or perhaps you may forget, that Charles Street leads from the Queen Square Chapel5 to the two Green Park Streets.
The houses in the streets near Laura Place I should expect to be above our price. Gay Street[76] would be too high, except only the lower house on the left-hand side as you
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chapel
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vi.渐渐上升,升高;vt.攀登,登上 | |
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undertaking
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delightful
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